What We'd Tell Our Young Adult Self
The Real Life Podcast
Jefferson Bethke
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, Jeff and Alyssa Bethke talk to their younger, college-aged selves about what they would do differently or what they wish they had known then.
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| 0:00.0 | I remember my first year freshman year it was just the first semester was like when do I even eat I have to do this this and this and get to that class and all these things. |
| 0:11.1 | Hey guys welcome to the real life podcast where we talk about exactly that every |
| 0:15.4 | single week real life which means some episodes might be about a fight we just |
| 0:20.5 | had some episodes might be about potty training since we have two toddlers, |
| 0:24.2 | and some might be about eschatological realism because I love thinking and talking about |
| 0:28.2 | deep theological things, and maybe we'll talk about all three of those in one episode. |
| 0:32.6 | But we hope the show feels like hanging out in our living room with us |
| 0:36.0 | drinking a cup of coffee as we discuss faith and family and culture and Jesus. |
| 0:41.5 | Me and my lovely wife, Alyssa, are your host and don't hesitate to hit us up or reach |
| 0:45.5 | out on social media to say hi or comment on this week's episode. Enjoy. |
| 0:55.0 | How's it going guys, I'm Jeff. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Alyssa. Welcome back to the real life podcast, where we talk about faith culture and answer your |
| 1:04.2 | questions to our non-married peeps non-relationship peeps we have a treat |
| 1:10.0 | for you you you could be but we do have a treat for you try to alternate. We try to not be a family only show even though obviously with family teams and stuff like that. We talk about that a lot. But we also like talking about a lot of everything. So this episode is going to be one of those ones where we are going to answer and talk about if we could go back to college |
| 1:25.6 | What would we do different or another or better ways to put it is if we could go is it just college or is it young adult the same thing yeah young adult college age? Okay. Well no what would we go tell our young |
| 1:36.2 | if we could go back what would we tell our young adult our college age self? |
| 1:39.5 | What would we do different? Yeah and so like I said you can be our age now and you can be |
| 1:43.2 | married and you know have kids and maybe that you're thinking about this or it'd be |
| 1:46.2 | fun to process that you could be young adult college right now you can be in |
| 1:49.3 | relationship you can be not in relationship this kind of for everyone so um can I just say I love I love that age I love |
| 1:57.2 | you loved that age or you love other people that age I I loved young adult age I did not like college age for myself. It's the same thing. |
| 2:06.7 | It's different like college age I was I felt very insecure unsure of myself. I identity stuff, and then after college, the next two years, three years |
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